Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff University, 28–31 August 2018
Geohumanities, literary cultures, and new landscapes of cartography.
Session Organisers: Professor Jon Anderson (Cardiff University), Professor Kirsti Bohata (Swansea University), Dr Kieron Smith (Cardiff University), Dr Jeffrey Morgan (Cardiff University). Sponsored by Social and Cultural Geography Research Group
The recent turns within cartography from the representational to the processual (see Kitchin, Gleeson, and Dodge, 2013) have not only created new ways of understanding what maps can be(come), but also coincided with the proliferation of social scientific, humanities, and digitised disciplines exploring the cartographic as a way to articulate the human condition.
This session explores these arena with particular attention to the relations between literature, culture, and place. It explores the ways an array of literary cultures story the landscapes around us. It asks how stories create new worlds, and how they relate to the ’real’ worlds in which we live. How do pictures (e.g. in the graphic novel), words (e.g. through oral narrative and novels), and illustrative augmentation (be it digitised or otherwise) combine to contribute new additions to the cartographic repertoire? Inviting papers that range from conventional distant mapping in literary geographies, to locative literature, ambient literature, artistic illiterature, and deep mapping, the session seeks to creatively explore what mapping can become in an era of digital change, interdisciplinary convergence, and the processual turn. In short, it asks: what maps now exist to aid our navigation of the real and imaginary landscapes around us?
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, along with a title, author affiliation and email address, to Jon Anderson ([log in to unmask] ) by 31st January 2018.
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